Archive: December 2000

Searching for Betti Herzberg

Posted on December 18, 2000

Friends, We have just seen that it’s not too late to find loved ones; please help. Looking for: Betti Herzberg, born 1933 in Duisberg, Germany , but parents were Polish Citizens.  Father: Schimon Herzberg.  Mother: Mala Herzberg. Sister: Miriam. The mother and two children were deported through Zbaszyn to Warsaw in 1939;the father was sent Continue Reading »

Searching for any family members of Convoy #73

Posted on December 18, 2000

On 15 May 1944, the convoy #73 left Drancy (France) with 878 Jews (only men in the prime of life, able to work, no women, no children, no elderly, no ill persons). They were supposed to go and work for the Todt organization. In reality, the train arrived in Kovno (Lithuania, today Kaunas) where it Continue Reading »

Searching for Rachel Goldberg

Posted on December 18, 2000

My father’s family sheltered a Jewish girl during the war. My father would like to locate his “sister” after these many years. I have attached a photo of her and following is all the information I have at this time. We believe the girl’s name is Rachala (Rachel) Goldberg. She was born around 1940 in Continue Reading »

Seeking Other Children from Sachsenhausen

Posted on December 18, 2000

I am looking for children-survivors, boys and girls, who were in Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg, between December 1944 and April 1945, when the camp was liberated by the Russians. We, a group of around 20 children, were living in what was called “the Revier” barracks where sick inmates where taken (possibly only women in the barrack Continue Reading »

Steve T.

Posted on December 14, 2000

MORE FROM A WANDERER I was born in Vienna, Austria on January 8, 1932. I was thus six years old at the time of the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Germany). We left Vienna on an overnight train to Venice from Sudbahnhof (South Station) at 10 P.M. on September 8, 1938. We continued on to Continue Reading »

Marcelle B.

Posted on December 14, 2000

My parents were originally from a small town near the larger city of Lodz, in Poland. They came to live in Paris right after their marriage in 1930, and I was born there in August of 1931. Ours was a large family. My mother and father were cousins and each had six brothers and sisters. Continue Reading »

Ilana D.

Posted on December 14, 2000

My parents were born in Germany and fled after Hitler’s rise. Many of the members of their extended family managed to reach safe havens between 1933 and 1939 when the war actually started. This was the pattern of a great part of German Jewry. Thus I have cousins in South Africa, in Australia, in England, Continue Reading »

Helen B.

Posted on December 14, 2000

I am a child survivor of the Holocaust. Even though I am no longer a child at this time, I was a child when I lived through the Holocaust. Before the war, I lived in Brussels, Belgium with my family. I enjoyed a culturally rich orthodox Jewish family life. We were poor but never hungry Continue Reading »

Floris K.

Posted on December 14, 2000

In July 1942, I was eight years old and living in occupied Belgium. The Germans had just begun to round up Jews and deport them so it became imperative for my family to go into hiding. Suddenly I found myself in a strange place away from home, away from Mum and Dad. I say “suddenly” Continue Reading »

Miryam L.

Posted on December 14, 2000

A TALE OF TEREZIN (also known as Theresienstadt) Interview with My Mother, Miryam L., Child Survivor of Concentration Camp As Told To Esther V. L., 1999 SOME BACKGROUND NOTES: The place of my mother’s Birth, CHUST, is a small town in the province of galicia, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. The Romanian border Continue Reading »

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